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    Title
    Wishful Drinking
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Carrie Fisher
    Physical properties
    Format: Other book format
    Number of pages: 176
    Width: 215 mm
    Height: 140 mm
    Thickness: 20 mm
    Weight: 354 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781439102251
    ISBN 10: 1439102252
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: BIO026000
    Dewey: B
    BISAC category code: BIO022000
    Dewey: 791.43028092
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T4.1A
    BISAC category code: BIO005000
    Edition
    1
    Illustrations note
    illustrations
    Publisher
    SIMON & SCHUSTER
    Imprint name
    SIMON & SCHUSTER
    Publication date
    02 December 2008
    Publication City/Country
    New York/US
    Main description
    Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed. Wishful Drinking, the show, has been a runaway success. Entertainment Weekly declared it "drolly hysterical" and the Los Angeles Times called it a "Beverly Hills yard sale of juicy anecdotes." This is Carrie Fisher at her best -- revealing her worst. She tells her true and outrageous story of her bizarre reality with her inimitable wit, unabashed self-deprecation, and buoyant, infectious humor.
    Biographical note
    Carrie Fisher has been a director in her teens, an actor in her twenties (The STAR WARS trilogy, HANNAH AND HER SISTERS, etc), a screenwriter and novelist in her thirties (POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE, SURRENDER THE PINK).
    Review quote
    "Fisher, unlike most celebrities (especially ones spawned from other celebrities) can actually write, and..."Wishful Drinking", though an extremely short book, is super salacious and entertaining." -- Jezebel.com